Quote Originally Posted by Former Labour leader View Post
Dont think it's as simple of that. Over a period of years voters to form a impression of a government. Cameron and Osborne, did a brilliant(but unfair) job of blaming Gordon Brown for the banking crisis and the years of austerity that followed. Got into electors psyche that Labour could not be trusted on the economy. Won the Tories the 2010 and 2015 elections on the back of it.
And from years of door knocking it isn't until the last couple of weeks before an election that voters start to connect and firm up their voting intentions.
It's a long time ago now, but Winston Churchill, who so many will tell you was the man who won the Second World War and his party were turfed out of power as Labour won a landslide. What we're living through now is the closest thing to what happened between 1939 and 45 that we've had since then and there is common acceptance that the number of British dead is very high with many believing that it could be a lot lower if different decisions had been made by the Government in terms of when we went into lockdown. We have a Prime Minister who has said in PMQs that he should be held responsible for the UK's response to the virus. Using the most conservative estimates, 45,000 plus have died of the virus in the last six months and yet none of this appears to register with 40 per cent plus of the voting public when it comes to how they will cast their vote - these are hardly normal times and I find it remarkable that so many appear to be behaving as if they are.